56 Leonard is a vertical glass expression of sculpted surfaces, cantilevers and sparkling glass. Designed by Herzog & de Meuron, 56 Leonard offers 145 unique residences all with private outdoor space which together create a cascading 60-story iconic tower in the New York skyline. United at its base with a monumental commissioned work by sculptor Anish Kapoor.

source: courtesy of opengap . atelierarchitects . Team members: Zsuzsanna Kiss-Gal . Gergely Kiss-Gal .Peter Debreczeni . Margo PetroThe Artist's Colony market proposal analyzes the characteristics of markets, how they behave in urban environment, how they adopt to any circumstances, how they reflect. The design uses the already existing, it generates development, evolution in zones and areas of the urban net. We created a raster, that is more like the base of the modular system, and distorted this raster, as the net of the city is distorted as well. We designed 5 "trunks", or modules, they have different heights and areas, they create the mood of a re-scaled urban street silhouette. Each trunk can be used as desired, can be rotated, revolved, mirrored, according to the raster, therefore can be adopted to any site. Our aim was to create a highly adaptable market system, that complies with any city, any structure.
To scale our design, we chose a site surrounded by firewalls of adjoining residential and industrial buildings in Hungary, the 7th district of Budapest. After the intervention, the Artist's Colony leaves the site, and leaves behind its cast. This market gently imprints its qualities on the site and real permanent urban character remains.

The CPS project is supported by The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust and is intended to transform a collection of historically significant buildings into a centre of heritage, arts and leisure facilities for the local community and overseas visitors.

Holiday apartments have been for a long time a rarity in the Romanian architectural space, which has been divided in this sector between big hotels and small individual villas. In the context of scarce accommodation and increasingly financially and socially powerful categories able to own their private space on the Black Sea shore, a new type of architecture is emerging, aiming to break down the barriers of Romanian urban living (characterized by visual, phonic and thermo isolation, economical efficiency seen as high density, and a lack of respect for natural vegetation).

Apartment buildings are located in a redeveloped downtown area that has recently been converted from derelict industrial to public and residential use. Despite its central position in the city, the site is removed from main roads and downtown bustle. Next to the new music school on the north of the city block, three apartment buildings rise from a green surface. Their positions reflect the heterogeneous surroundings; variety of directions influences the varying orientations of the volumes. As there are no parallel facades, each apartment can establish an individual character without obstruction. Lower floors comprise four apartments each, top floor is divided into three apartment units, all with flexible floor plans. As a result, long facade surfaces ensure each apartment abundant natural light. The smooth facades with enclosed loggias enfold the volumes into a shimmering ceramic coat, varying in colour tone and reflectivity. Transparent fence around the complex prevents exclusion from surrounding city life while allowing unsupervised children's play. Gently sloped green areas provide various opportunities for that, and a small playground for the youngest children is located in the eastern corner of the site. Parking and storage spaces are arranged below ground, serving as a base for all three volumes. Special attention was accorded to energy use of the complex. Each building has a separate boiler room, cooling is arranged individually, the compact facade and energy supply scheme both stimulate economical consumption and thus reduced energy use.

Amagerforbrænding is in many ways situated on an edge condition. It is a place in the outskirts of Copenhagen, but also the centre for new recreational activities. It divides the local area in two, with factories on one side and housing on the other.

Andrés Jaque during the NOW Interviews at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2010. Produced by the Institute of the 21st Century with support from ForYourArt, The Kayne Foundation, Brenda R. Potter, Catharine and Jeffrey Soros

A vertical addition of exhibition halls guide the visitors from the port area over the surrounding historical buildings of the former railway station to several overview terraces above whole oslo. on their way up the escalators and staircases are located on the outside of the hall blocks and open the possibility of open overview during moving from one hall to the other. the exhibition halls itself are right in the wished size and offer introverted neutral rooms for all kinds of exhibitions.

the new museum building starts in his dramaturgy with a flat staple of public interest halls from west to east. this part of the museum forms together with the historical buildings a public place for recreation and non commercial activities in front of the museum. following the movement from west to east the exhibition halls get stapled more vertical and form together with the railway station the main access place. this area is right beside of the existing courtyard in front of the city hall and in this case directly connected to the centre of oslo.

in the north part of the area are the government – office buildings located. At the south- west corner there is space for future development opportunities beside the former railway office.

the historical buildings of the railway station form together with the vertical addition of the exhibition halls the new main access place at the corner to the old city hall.

The City of Colmar has launched an ambitious expansion project that will allow the Musée d'Unterlinden to annex the premises of Colmar’s former municipal baths, a magnificent Art Nouveau edifice built in 1906 and located opposite the museum.

Open Fort is a strong but pliable structure. Its sheer scale and brawny meandering shape allows for flexibility and generosity on other levels, such as the way it operates and in the typologies it houses. More than a building, it is an expressive framework that can be occupied depending on needs and occasions, a structure that can adapt over time without losing its presence and character. It is a base for the borough, a place where people can develop their dreams, can try and fail and try again. It will have lavish areas on the higher floors, with mesmerizing views over the city center, and more intimate ground related places where people can explore, discover and produce. The fort finds its strength and purpose through the participation of those it attracts

Katoikia, a private residence, rests in the location of a former farmhouse, between a large cedar tree and a fig grove and hovers over the pristine valley. Its simple horizontal volume is designed to be perceived as an antipode to the terraced slope. It respects the existing landscape to the outmost and highlights the drama of it.

The project places three single structures on the site. This choice is based on the surrounding typologies, their efficient allotment and ground ratio on one hand as well as the intention to best integrate the new buildings in the existing setting on the other.